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Added 10 October 2026

fishmeal

noun

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Ground dried fish, used mainly for livestock feed.
The farmer supplemented the grain with fishmeal to increase the protein content of the cattle's diet.

Origin

By surface analysis, fish + meal. Cognate with Danish fiskemel, Dutch vismeel, German Fischmehl, Icelandic fiskimjöl, Norwegian Bokmål fiskemel, Norwegian Nynorsk fiskemjøl, and Swedish fiskmjöl.

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